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1 Thursday, June 5, 2014 Hyatt Regency San Francisco Regenerative Medicine and Cellular Therapy All education session events will take place in the Grand Ballroom. 8:00am 8:10am Introduction Joanne Kurtzberg, MD, Duke University Medical Center 8:10am 9:50am Session IA: How Are Stem Cells Marching to the Clinic? Moderator Andrew Balber, PhD, Duke University The View From Academia Mahendra Rao, MD, PhD, National Institute of Health The View From Industry Edward Field, MBA, Cytomedix, Inc. Advancing Stem Cell Science Towards Therapies for Patients: CIRM s Experience and Future Directions Ellen Feigal, MD, CIRM 9:50am 10:10am 10:10am 12:30pm Session IB: Cellular Therapies for Neurological Diseases, Treatments Near or In the Clinic Today Moderator TBD Therapeutic Use of Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells for Brain Remyelination Martha Windrem, MD, University of Rochester Autologous Cord Blood Shows Promise in the Treatment of HIE Michael Cotton, MD, Duke University Medical Center Utilization of Multiple Autologous Cord Blood Infusions to Treat Children With Brain Injury Joanne Kurtzberg, MD, Duke University Medical Center A Randomized Trial of Autologous Bone Marrow vs. Cord Blood in Children with CP Charles S. Cox, Jr., MD, University of Texas Houston Medical School Cord Blood to Treat CP in Children: What are the Pathways to Allogeneic Cell Therapies? Joanne Kurtzberg, MD, Duke University Medical Center 12:30pm 1:30pm Lunch Pacific Concourse

2 1:30pm 3:30pm Session IIA: Derivative Products from CORD Blood and Placental Tissue Moderator - Jennifer Willert, MD, Stanford University Development of More Than Minimally Manipulated Cord Blood Products: Pathways for Academic Development Colleen Delaney, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center The Potential for Cord Blood Derived MSC in RM: Manufacturing and Clinical Issues Morey Kraus, PhD, ViaCord Preclinical Evidence That Cord Blood Derived Endothelial Colony Forming Cells Display Potential as Vasculo-Reparative Agents Mervin C. Yoder, MD, University of Indiana New Horizons for the Ex Vivo Modulation of Cord Blood Daniel Shoemaker, PhD, Fate Therapeutics 3:30pm 3:50pm 3:50pm 5:10pm Session IIB: Challenges and Opportunities for Resourcing, Financing and Regulating Development and Clinical Use of Cord Blood Products in Regenerative Medicine Moderator - Joanne Kurtzberg, MD, Duke University Medical Center Current Costs of Blood Transplants: Impact of Licensure on Cord Blood Transplants, Implications for the Use of CB in RM Michael Boo, JD, NMDP Regulatory Challenges to Bringing Cord Blood Derived Products to the Clinic Mercy Quagraine, PhD, FDA Innovative Financing and Insurance of Cord Blood Banking for Better Future Use of Cord Blood Units in Regenerative Medicine Arie Giniger, PhD, Irsael 5:10 pm 5:30pm Discussion & Closing Comments 5:30 pm 7:30pm Welcome and Abstract Poster Reception, Grand Ballroom Foyer and Market Street Foyer

3 Friday, June 6, 2014 CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION AND CORD BLOOD BANKING 8:00am 9:30am SESSIONS IIIA: The Necessity and Urgency of Encouraging Appropriate Utilization of Cord Blood Transplantation Moderators Joseph Alvarnas, MD, City of Hope & Vanderson Rocha, MD, PhD, Eurocord and Oxford University 8:00am 8:30am The Problem of Absent or Late Referrals by Hematologists and Efforts Toward Improvement Joseph Alvarnas, MD, City of Hope 8:30am 8:50am Expanding the Indications of Cord Blood Transplantation: HCT for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies in the Sixth to Eighth Decades of Life Amanda Olson, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center 8:50am 9:10am Expanding the Indications for Cord Blood Transplantation: New Cohorts Who Might Likely Benefit Daniel Weisdorf, MD, University of Minnesota 9:10am 9:30am Unrelated Cord Blood Transplantation has Outcomes Comparable to Similar Patient Groups Treated with Matched Unrelated Donor Transplants. Annalisa Ruggeri, MD, Eurocord International Registry 9:30am 9:50am 9:50am 12:00pm Session IIIB: The Necessity and Urgency of Encouraging Appropriate Utilization of Cord Blood Transplantation (cont) Moderators Joseph Alvarnas, MD, City of Hope & Vanderson Rocha, MD, PhD, Eurocord and Oxford University 9:50am 10:20am Comparative Outcomes After RIC UCBT vs. RIC 8/8 PB in Adults with Lymphoid Malignancies Vanderson Rocha, MD, PhD, Eurocord and Oxford University 10:20am 10:40am Transplantation for All Patients Including Those of Racial and Ethnical Minorities: Improved Allograft Access with Enlarging CB Inventory Parastoo B. Dahi, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 10:40am 11:00am Chronic GVHD Burden is Lower Following Adult Cord Blood Versus MURD Transplant Jonathan Gutman, MD, University of Colorado

4 11:00am 11:20 am Alternative Donors Extend Transplantation for Patients With Lymphoma Who Lack an HLA Matched Donor Veronika Bachnova, MD, University of Minnesota 11:20am 12:00pm Discussion of SESSIONS IIIA and IIIB 12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch Pacific Concourse 1:00pm 3:00pm Session IV: What is the Optimal Means of Providing Adequate Cell Does in Cord Blood Transplantation? Discussion and Debate Moderator Claudio Brunstein, MD, University of Minnesota 1:00pm 1:20pm Double Cord Blood HCT Juilet Barker, MBBS, FRACP, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 1:20pm 1:40pm Cell Expansion Colleen Delaney, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1:40pm 2:00pm Dual Haplo/CB HCTs Koen Van Besien, PhD, NYP-Weill Cornell College of Medicine 2:00pm 2:20pm Haploidentical Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. Richard Champlin, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center 2:20pm 3:00 pm Discussion and Debate 3:00pm 3:20pm 3:20pm 5:00pm Session IV: The Selection of Optimal Donors for CB HCT Moderators Mary Eapen, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin & Sarah Cooley, MD, University of Minnesota 3:20pm 3:40pm Toward Eliminating HLA Class I Expression to Generate Universal Cells From Allogeneic Donors Hiroki Troikai, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center

5 3:40pm 4:00pm The Significance of Allele-Level HLA-Matching after Myeloablative Single CB Transplantation for Hemotologic Malginancy Mary Eapen, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin 4:00pm 4:20pm Killer Cell Immunoblobulin-like receptor (KIR) Typing to Select Donors with Potential Natural Killer (NK) Alloreactivity Sarah Cooley, MD, University of Minnesota 4:20pm 4:40pm Outcomes of Patients with Hemoglobinopathies Given Either CB or BM HCT from an HLA-identical Sibling Mark Walters, MD, Children s Hospital and Research Center of Oakland 4:40pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:30pm Discussion Cytolon Industry Workshop, Bayview B Room 6:30 pm 8:30 pm MNX Reception, Atrium

6 Saturday, June 7, 2014 Cord Blood Banking & Clinical Advancements 8:00am 9:40am Session VI: New Findings Regarding GVHD, Minimal Residual Disease and the Use of ATG Moderators Doris Ponce, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Michael Pulsipher, MD, University of Utah 8:00am 8:30am The Prevention and Management of GVHD Doris Ponce, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 830am 8:45am The Role of Regulatory: T cells in Preventing GVHD Claudio Brunstein, MD, University of Minnesota 8:45am 9:00am Striking Predictive Power for Relapse and Decreased Survival with Detectable Minimal Residual Disease Michael Pulsipher, MD, University of Utah 9:00am 9:15am Quantitative Assessment of T cell Repertoire Recovery After Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Using Next Generation Sequencing Miguel-Angel Perales, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 9:15am 9:30am Facilitating Engraftment in Patients at High Risk for Graft Rejection Following Reduced Intensity Conditioning: An Alternative to ATG Rachel Salit, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 9:30am 9:40am Discussant: Vanderson Rocha, MD, PhD 9:40am 10:00am 10:00am 12:00pm Session VII: Means to Enhance Engraftment of Cord Blood Cells Moderators - Elizabeth Shpall, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center & Mitchell Horwitz, MD, Duke University Medical Center 10:00am 10:20am Fucosylation with Fucosyltransferase VI or Fucosyltransferase VII improves Cord Blood Engraftment Elizabeth Shpall, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center

7 10:20am 10:40am Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells Cultured in the Presence of Nicotinamide (NiCord ) Provide Long Term Multi-lineage Engraftment Mitchell Horwitz, MD, Duke University Medical Center 10:40am 11:00am Update of Modified Dosing for Inhibition of DPP4 by Sitagliptin to Enhance Single Cord Blood Transplantation in Adult Patients With High Risk Leukemia and Lymphoma Sherif S. Farag, MD, University of Indiana 11:00am 11:20am PGE 2 -Modulated Umbilical Cord Transplantation Corey Cutler, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 11:20am 11:40am Determinants of Engraftment After Double-unit Cord Blood Transplantation: The Importance of CD34+ Cell Dose and Cord Blood Bank Practices Duncan Purtill, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 11:40am 12:00pm 12:00pm-1:00pm Discussion Lunch Pacific Concourse 1:00pm 3:00pm Session VIII: New Aspects of Cord Blood Cell Transplantation Moderators - Jiangiang Li, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center & Michael Verneris, MD, University of Minnesota 1:00pm 1:15pm The Best Abstract Submission: Optimizing the Outcomes of Unrelated HLA-Mismatched Cord Blood Transplantation: Predicted Indirectly Recognizable HLA Epitopes - A Possible Novel Donor Selection Tool for Better Disease Control and Reducing the Transplant-Related Toxicity. Kirsten A.Thus, MD, --- University Medical Center, Utrecht 1:15pm 1:40pm Antigen Presenting Cell-mediated Expansion of Human Umbilical Cord Blood Yields Long-scale Expansion of Natural Killer Cells with Anti-myeloma Activity Nina Shah, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center 1:40pm 2:00pm Early NK Cell Proliferation after CB Transplantation is Associated with Superior Disease-Free Survival Due to Reduced Leukemia Relapse Michael Verneris, MD, University of Minnesota

8 2:00pm 2:20pm Clinical Application and Therapeutic Effect of Fetal Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Prenatal Transplantation Steven Shaw, MD, MSc, PhD, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital 2:20pm 2:40pm Three Kingdoms Saga: Exploring the Mechanism of Graft versus Graft Interactions and Its Influence on Outcomes in Cord Blood Transplant Recipients Jiangiang Li, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 2:40pm 3:00pm Experience of Pediatric Stem Cell Transplants in AIIMS, Delhi, India Sameer Bakhshi, MD, All India Institute of Medical Sciences 3:00pm 3:20pm 3:20pm 5:00pm Session IX: Cord Blood Banking Including Cost Considerations Moderators Michael Boo, JD, NMDP & Joanne Kurtzberg, MD, Duke University Medical Center 3:20pm 3:25pm Impact of Umbilical Cord Blood Processing on Transplant Outcomes Karen Ballen, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital 3:35pm 4:15pm Costs: The Perspective of a Transplant Physician Elizabeth Shpall, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center 3:45pm 3:55pm Costs; The Perspective of a Cord Blood Banker Joanne Kurtzberg, MD, Duke University Medical University 3:55pm 4:05pm Cord Blood Banking: Overview of Relative Costs of Cell Source Michael Boo, JD, NMDP 4:05pm 4:15pm Discussion 4:15pm 4:30pm Navigating Consent Issues in the Collection of Licensed Units: How Should Potential Research Uses be Addressed in the Consent at Collection? Roberta King, MPH, NMDP 4:30pm 4:45pm The Role of Post-Thaw Potency Testing in the Selection of Cord Blood Units Donna Regan, MT(ASCP)SBB, St. Louis Cord Blood Bank 4:45pm 5:00pm Discussion

9 Adjournment Until 2015

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